pruwybn

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[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 54 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Ever done this trick?

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just imagining the context where it would be phrased like this - "Hi, good to meet you, my first name is John, and my last name is Smith."

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

I think that might be too much of a spoiler 😄

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

In the book, it kept the same mass and got a lot bigger. And of course much brighter.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Nearing the end of When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi, which came out a few months ago. It's a bit silly but I'd recommend it. The premise can be summed up as, "What would happen if the moon turned into cheese?"

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 days ago

Looks like your post didn't make it to their server.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

What's the story behind this photo?

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

It was definitely true in my experience- the general feeling was that it's very hard to prove any general rules in psychology, because there are so many factors. You want to be able to say "people are ___" but people are just way too complex.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

All I remember from my psychology classes is that for every study that shows some phenomenon, there's another study that shows the opposite. That's why I switched to math.

edit: well I guess the main reason was to help find a job...

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago

Reminds me of a John Hodgman bit - we have ice hockey, field hockey, and air hockey, implying the existence of fire hockey.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

Thank you, I thought this was aneurysmposting for a minute.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

I like how the map shows the curvature of the north border (49th parallel), meaning all these lines bulge north in the middle.

 

I feel like it would be hard to say "brr" with an English accent, because the soft R would just make it sound like "buh".

 

...and River Phoenix played young Indian Jones in the third movie.

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